INVENTIONS, PATENTS AND COPYRIGHTS. All inventions, innovations or improvements in Company's method of conducting its business (including policies, procedures, products, improvements, software, ideas and discoveries, whether or not patentable or copyrightable) conceived or made by Executive, either alone or jointly with others, during the term of employment belong to Company. Executive will promptly disclose in writing such inventions, innovations or improvements to Company and perform all actions reasonably requested by Company to establish and confirm such ownership by Company, including, but not limited to, cooperating with and assisting Company in obtaining patents and copyrights for Company in the United States and in foreign countries. Any patent or copyright application filed by Executive within a year after termination of his employment hereunder shall be presumed to relate to an invention or work of authorship which was made during the term of employment unless Executive can provide conclusive evidence to the contrary.
INVENTIONS, PATENTS AND COPYRIGHTS. The contractor shall defend, protect, and hold harmless the State of Missouri, its officers, agents, and employees against all suits of law or in equity resulting from patent and copyright infringement concerning the contractor's performance or products produced under the terms of the contract.
INVENTIONS, PATENTS AND COPYRIGHTS. 4.15.1 Any discovery or invention arising out of or developed in the course or performance of this Agreement shall be promptly and fully reported to the Corporation, and if this work is supported by a Federal grant of funds, it shall promptly and fully be reported to the Federal Government for determination as to whether patent protection of such invention or discovery shall be sought and how the rights in the invention or discovery, including rights under any patent issued thereon, shall be disposed of and administered to protect the public interest.
4.15.2 The Corporation shall be the owner of any report, document or other data produced in whole or in part in connection with the performance of this Agreement.
4.15.3 In no event shall Section 4.15.1 above be deemed to apply to any discovery or invention of the Contractor which existed prior to or was developed or discovered independently from its activities related to this Agreement.
4.15.4 If this Agreement involves information services or the lease, license or other use of the Corporation, NYC Health + Hospitals or City computer system or electronic data processing system then the following shall apply:
a. All software, computer data, and any accompanying literature developed in connection with this Agreement shall be the sole property of the Corporation;
b. All such material constitutes confidential information that the Contractor shall not disclose to any third party nor shall it disclose any information obtained from the Corporation, NYC Health + Hospitals or the City concerning the Corporation's or NYC Health + Hospitals’s or the City's operations, existing or future computer programs or other record keeping procedures, except as such disclosure may be required by law;
c. The Contractor will use its best efforts to prevent unauthorized dissemination or disclosure of such information related to the development of said software; and
d. None of the Contractor or any of its employees shall transfer, publish, use or disclose the contents of or any aspect of said software to third parties unless specifically authorized in writing, in advance, by the Corporation. This Section shall not apply if the Contractor develops similar software independently of this Agreement or such software was rightfully obtained by the Contractor from a third party whom the Corporation, NYC Health + Hospitals or the City has licensed or authorized to use such software. The Contractor shall return to the Corporation, at the termi...
INVENTIONS, PATENTS AND COPYRIGHTS. Executive hereby assigns and grants to the Company sole and exclusive ownership of (and will upon request take any actions needed to formally assign and grant to the Company and/or to obtain patents, trademark registrations or copyrights belonging to the Company with regard to) any and all inventions, information, reports, computer software or programs, writings, technical information or work product collected or developed by Executive, alone or with others, during the term of Executive’s employment and relating to the Company. This obligation applies whether or not the foregoing inventions or information are made or prepared in the course of Executive’s employment with the Company, so long as such inventions or information relate to the Business of Company and have been developed in whole or in part during the term of Executive’s employment with the Company. Executive agrees to advise the Company in writing of each invention that Executive, alone or with others, makes or conceives during the term of Executive’s employment and which relates to the Business of Company. Notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement to the contrary, Executive shall not be required to assign, nor shall Executive be deemed to have assigned, any of Executive’s rights in any invention that Executive develops entirely on his own time without using the Company’s equipment, supplies, facilities or Trade Secrets, except for inventions that either (i) relate, at the time conceived or reduced to practice, to the Business of Company or to actual or demonstrably anticipated research or development of the Company or (ii) result from any work performed by Executive for the Company or on behalf of the Company. Inventions Executive developed before Executive came to work for the Company, if any, are described in the attached Exhibit A, and are excluded from this Section 5(c). The failure of the parties to attach any Exhibit A to this Agreement shall be deemed an admission by Executive that Executive does not have any pre-existing inventions.
INVENTIONS, PATENTS AND COPYRIGHTS. (a) All inventions and other creative works, including any patent, copyright, trade secret, trademark or other intellectual property rights developed or produced by Executive either alone or jointly with others during Executive's employment with the Company and which relate to the Company's business or technology or which are derived in the context of the Company's business or operations (collectively, the "Intellectual Property") shall be considered to have been prepared for the Company as a part of and in the course of Executive's role as consultant to, and thereafter, employment with, the Company. Any such Intellectual Property shall be owned by the Company regardless of whether it would otherwise be considered a work made for hire. Such Intellectual Property shall include, among other things, software and documentation therefor.
(b) The Company shall have full ownership of the Intellectual Property, with no rights of ownership vested in Executive. Executive agrees that in the event any Intellectual Property is determined by a court of competent jurisdiction not to be a work for hire under the federal copyright laws, this Agreement shall operate as an irrevocable assignment by her to the Company of the copyright in the works, including all rights thereunder in perpetuity. Under this irrevocable assignment, Executive hereby assigns to the Company the sole and exclusive right, title, and interest in and to the Intellectual Property, without further consideration, and agrees to assist the Company in registering and from time to time enforcing all copyrights and other rights and protections relating to the Intellectual Property in any and all countries. Executive agrees that in the event of any dispute arising out of or concerning this section, no actions by the Company or Executive undertaken for the purpose of securing, maintaining, or preserving the copyright in the works, including but not limited to recordation of this section with the United States Copyright Office, shall be considered by any finder of fact or determiner of law in determining the character of the work as work made for hire, unless expressly authorized by the Company.
(c) Executive shall communicate to the Company promptly and fully in writing, in such format as the Company may deem appropriate, all Intellectual Property made or conceived by Executive whether alone or jointly with others from the date hereof until the date this Agreement is terminated and to assign to the Company all I...
INVENTIONS, PATENTS AND COPYRIGHTS. Associate acknowledges that all inventions, innovations, improvements, developments, methods, designs, analyses, drawings, reports, and all similar or related information (whether or not patentable) which relate to Office Depot’s or any of its subsidiaries’ actual or anticipated business, research and development, or existing or future products or services, and which are conceived, developed, made, or reduced to practice by Associate, alone or with others, while employed by Office Depot (collectively, “Work Product”) belong to Office Depot. Associate hereby assigns to Office Depot all right, title, and interest in and to such Work Product. Associate shall promptly disclose such Work Product to Office Depot and perform all actions reasonably requested by Office Depot (whether during or after employment) to establish and confirm such ownership (including without limitation the execution of assignments, consents, powers of attorney, and other instruments). Associate further acknowledges and agrees that all writings and documentation of any kind produced by Associate in the course of working for Office Depot are works made for hire (as that term is defined by U.S. Copyright law) and the property of Office Depot, including without limitation any copyrights in such writings and documentation. To the extent that any such works may not, by operation of law or otherwise, be a work made for hire, Associate hereby assigns to Office Depot all copyright in such works, whether published or unpublished.
INVENTIONS, PATENTS AND COPYRIGHTS. 6.15.1 Any discovery or invention arising out of or developed in the course or performance of this Agreement shall be promptly and fully reported to the Corporation, and if this work is supported by a Federal grant of funds, it shall promptly and fully be reported to the Federal Government for determination as to whether patent protection of such invention or discovery shall be sought and how the rights in the invention or discovery, including rights under any patent issued thereon, shall be disposed of and administered to protect the public interest.
6.15.2 The Corporation shall be the owner of any report, document or other data produced in whole or in part in connection with the performance of this Agreement.
6.15.3 In no event shall Section 6.15.1 above be deemed to apply to any discovery or invention of the Contractor which existed prior to or was developed or discovered independently from its activities related to this Agreement.
INVENTIONS, PATENTS AND COPYRIGHTS. EMPLOYEE agrees that any inventions, discoveries, concepts, ideas, or intellectual property or expressions thereof, whether or not subject to patent, copyright, trademark or service xxxx protections, and whether or not reduced to a practice or method, which are conceived or developed by EMPLOYEE during his period of employment with COMPANY that relate to or result from the actual or anticipated business, work, research, or investigation of COMPANY shall be the sole and exclusive property of COMPANY. EMPLOYEE shall promptly disclose such inventions, discoveries, concepts or ideas to the CEO/President and perform all actions reasonably requested by the CEO/President to assign to and vest in COMPANY the entire right, title and interest to any such invention, discovery, concept or idea.
INVENTIONS, PATENTS AND COPYRIGHTS. A. Any discovery or invention arising out of or developed in the course of performance of this Agreement shall be promptly and fully reported to the Department, and if this work is supported by a federal grant of funds, shall be promptly and fully reported to the Federal Government for determination as to whether patent protection on such invention shall be sought and how the rights in the invention or discovery, including rights under any patent issued thereon, shall be disposed of and administered in order to protect the public interest.
B. No report, document or other data produced in whole or in part with contract funds shall be copyrighted by the Consultant nor shall any notice of copyright be registered by the Consultant in connection with any report, document or other data developed for the contract.
C. In no case shall subsections A and B of this section apply to, or prevent the Consultant from asserting or protecting its rights in any report, document or other data, or any invention which existed prior to or was developed or discovered independently from the activity directly related to this Agreement.
INVENTIONS, PATENTS AND COPYRIGHTS. Effective as of September 7, 2000, Z-KAT will assume responsibility, at its expense, for prosecution of pending Licensed Patent applications and maintenance of the Licensed Patents. In the event that Z-KAT should elect not to maintain or prosecute a Licensed Patent, Z-KAT shall so advise Dx. Xxxxx in writing, and Dx. Xxxxx may do so at his expense, provided that Z-KAT’s license under said Licensed Patent shall become non-exclusive. Z-KAT’s election not to maintain or prosecute a Licensed Patent shall not be without reasonable basis.
